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Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 12:55:58 -0600

Vandals topple history in Blue Springs

BLUE SPRINGS In 1857, a boy named Allen Johnson drowned while helping his father gather wood along the Blue River. Allen was just 8 when he died. His parents, J.H. and Martha Johnson, had moved to what is now Blue Springs two months before his death. The Johnsons buried their son in a field, then two years later moved his body to the Methodist Church's new cemetery.

Allen's grave was the first there, according to a cemetery history compiled by Anna Ekwall in November 1979.  On Friday, the simple white stone marking Allen's grave lay on its side in the grass one of about 40 headstones toppled earlier this week by vandals.

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http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2005/03/26/local/doc4244ee797fb89842469551.txt



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